Having delivered Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited from Chicago to Los Angeles, the power (Santa Fe F45 5920, F45 5921, F7B 308A and steam-generator car 133, decked out for th... (more)

The Genesee & Wyoming "Honoring Veterans and Service Members" program continues to expand on a variety of locomotives in the system fleet. Recently both the NECR GP40-2L 3015 and the Pr... (more)

CPKC train 529 heads west through CP 509 with the KCS Veterans unit leading. After a lengthy wait, the train is slow rolling down the connection to the Belt Railway of Chicago as it exits Norfolk ... (more)

AT&SF 4-8-4 2926 and AT&SF 3768 lead train number four, the California Limited, west of Trinidad Colorado in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Two Louisville & Nashville E7's leading train 8 The Pan American, are getting ready to leave Louisville Union Station for the last time on May 01, 1971. Photo by Louis Marre, from my collection... (more)

A somewhat unusual view of the rear of an ALC-42 "Charger" locomotive is seen as AMTK 340 runs light from Apex to Raleigh. This engine suffered a locked axle two weeks prior, and was set... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line E6(A) 522 (Shovel nose) leading the SouthWind and L&N E7(A) 791 heads train 15, both being refueled and watered at the Louisville Union Station on April 04, 1967. Photo by L... (more)

UP Turbine number 16 is coupled to a DD35B and is ready for its next assignment. Its nearing the end up its service life as it was retired in February of 1970. These turbines were nicknamed Big Bl... (more)

Chessie, C&O SD50 8626 - 8633, at the ex-B&O yard at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. December 12, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo

ELS 1221 Southbound with LPG tankers, heading for Crivitz, Wisconsin. Here they cross Holmes Junction Rd in Pembine Wi

Seaboard rostered only seven EMD NW2's switchers numbered 1406-1412. NW2 no.1410 illustrates the standard Seaboard switcher color scheme at the Atlanta rail yard on March 19, 1958. Photographer... (more)

Stars & Stripes | Led by KCS 4006 - the "Salute to Veterans" unit - a southbound train of grain loads cruises through downtown Anderson, MO on the rainy morning of Wednesday, July... (more)

Rock Island's GP-7's were not equipped for suburban service, and so 1217 must be functioning as a switcher or pilot rather than the motive power for the whole train. That duty is probably going ... (more)

C&NW 6864 CSX 6085 -Chessie 8259 -MGA 2304, with a WEPX train on the MGA's Waynesburg Southern coming through East View Cut south of Waynesburg, Rogersville, Pennsylvania. December 6, 1990. Jack D... (more)

Norfolk Southern's "Tennessee Alabama & Georgia Ry" heritage unit and Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's original TAG unit ended up side-by-side during a few switching moves at TVRM, whi... (more)